A Cowboy Panel Finish
This quilt has been about 13 months in the making - not full time but in chunks of time.
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| Cowboy Panel Quilt 😊 finished! |
Here is a quick recap. I finished most of the blocks by the end of last year's SAHRR (Stay At Home Round Robin). You can read all about the piecing process in my November 27th post (see Related links below). FMQ the quilt was my January One Monthly Goal (OMG) but I didn't quite make it. You can check out the links below but essentially I quilted-in-the-ditch, FMQ the blocks, FMQ the panel, and then FMQ the borders between the blocks.
In my last post about FMQ this quilt, I mentioned that I just had the inner dark brown border to stitch. I kept it simple with two straight lines quilted with my walking foot and just closed the line with a triangle shape in each corner. This is one of Angela Walter's ideas.
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| Quilting the inner border |
Here are a couple for photos since the weather was perfect outside!
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| A quick picture at the entrance of our home |
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| Another glamour shot |
I'm keeping it short and sweet today. This evening I'll be dropping of the quilt to Alek. I really hope he'll like it! - He did, for about 2 minutes and then was off to other things.😂
What I learned
- I had no idea that the panel I purchased was so large - that made for a big quilt. If possible, I'll try to keep my baby quilts smaller.
- I really did have fun putting this quilt together. It was challenging to make some of those blocks but given my accuracy challenge, even simple 9 patch blocks are a challenge!
- I had fun FMQ the Christmas panel quilt in December, so I was eager to start on this one. It was enjoyable and I'm going to try to do some FMQ every few weeks. I do have a number of smaller quilts to FMQ so that should keep me happy 😁
- I don't want my SAHRR 2026 to take me 13 months to finish - so I'm really going to try to make it for the parade at the end of March. At least I don't have two quilts to make this year!
Related links
- FMQ the panel and borders: Updates and I Quilted This! February 05, 2026
- FMQ Blocks and I Quilted This!, January 29, 2026
- Starting the FMQ: Getting stuff done and I Quilted This! January 22, 2026
Stitching-in-the-ditch: Starting Things and I Quilted This! January 15, 2026
Linking parties
I'll be linking to many fun linking parties. You may want to check some out, after you've linked up below! Monday Musings, Sew & Tell, Put your foot down, Off The Wall Friday, Finished (Or Not) Friday, Beauties Pageant, TGIFF, Patchwork & Quilts, Oh Scrap, 15 Minutes to Stitch 2026, Design Wall Monday, Needle & Thread Thursday,
Project details
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Cowboy Pane Quilt
Made during the SAHRR 2025
Size: 45" x 52"
Materials: cowboy panel, Kona solids, flannel backing, scraps
Techniques: piecing, appliqué, FMQ
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I Quilted This!
Welcome to the I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it! Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and feel free to grab the button.
Kat of Scrapbox Quilts has made some lovely placemats. The first is a scrappy spiral blue placemat, the colour of the January RSC.
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| Scrappy spiral blue placemat by Kat |
Kat also made placemats as a refresher on making mountains block. They are in red since it's the colour of Connie at Freemotion By The River's monthly color challenge. They were made to give as a hostess gift - lucky hostess!
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| Mountains block placemats made by Kat |
It's now your turn!
Hi! I'm so sorry - I prepared everything ahead of time and then forgot to copy and paste the linking party. Have fun :-)
Wahoo. . . what a nice finish! That is such a cute panel to start a project!--TerryK@OnGoingProjects
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Terry. it was a great panel :-)
DeleteOh so fun to see the finish of your last year's SAHRR! I'm glad you stuck with it, and I'm sure Alek will love his quilt!
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy - he did get excited for about 5 minutes and then had to do something else! He's a cute and busy almost 3 year old!
DeleteA finish is always exciting, even if it took longer than expected. Hopefully it was a hit with it's recipient.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate, it really was, especially his mother and grandmother!
DeleteCongrats on your Cowboy finish. It's wonderful :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Janine. I'm so happy that it's done - now to the next one!
DeleteI don't seem to find the linky party. Enjoy your visit as you deliver the quilt. <3 Nice finish!
ReplyDeleteHi Melva, I managed to forget to copy the html! Your panel quilt is really lovely. Please come back and link up :-)
DeleteThe cowboy quilt is ultra cute!!!
ReplyDeletePS ... I can't see the Link party???
Hi Gail, I managed to forget to copy the html....and I thought I was so efficient lol Hope you'll come back to link up!
DeleteYour cowboy quilt is fantastic and I know you are happy to have it finished. So glad you kept at it. It is great. Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Brenda. I'm really happy with it but wasn't sorry to see it go to a very busy boy :-)
DeleteFabulous mitered corner quilting! I love that Alek was interested but then went off to do the other things he has to do. It is so fun to see a SAHRR finished as we approach the finish of this years hop.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathleen. It wasn't surprising that a three year old boy thought it was cool and then left for other cool things :-) I'm going to ensure that this year's SAHRR gets finished by the party. Now that I've seen your quilt design I got lots of ideas for finishing this one. Thanks.
DeleteOh, bravo pour cet adorable quilt terminé ! J'adore ta finition de la petite bordure, les coins en triangles sont superbes !
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